Traffic information providing method and system therefor, and payment method for toll road fee

a technology of traffic information and payment method, applied in the field of road traffic information service, can solve the problems of unreliable calculation based on past experiences alone, and no savings in money and time for users

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-06-02
HITACHI LTD
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[0006] It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for utilizing a more effective road traffic-information service.

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Here, this calculation based on the past experiences alone can be considered unreliable.
Also, even if it has been found successful to calculate the traveling time, this success results in none of savings in money and time for the user.

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[0020] According to “Traffic Demand Estimation Investigation Materials” summarized by Road Bureau of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, it is said that “In the sixth year of Heisei, checking the occurrence traffic amount on each time-zone basis indicates that, during rush hours in the morning and evening, the traffic amount for go-to-work / come-home purposes occupies most of the whole traffic. Also, during time zone of the daytime, the traffic amount for business purpose occupies most of the whole traffic.” As the type differentiation, the whole traffic is classified into go-to-work / go-to-school, business, come-home, and private purposes. It can be safely assumed that the traffic amount for private purpose is constant at substantially 20% from around 7 o'clock in the morning to 7 o'clock in the evening, and is equal to 0% in the other time zone. Here, assume that this tendency has not changed so significantly in recent years as well after a lapse of considerable time. Th...

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A traffic-information providing method includes steps of accepting registration from a terminal to a center concerning ID information for identifying a vehicle, billing both information associated with the ID information and information about a travel route along which the vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, calculating, at the center, future traffic information based on the travel route registered into the center, and providing the calculated future traffic information via a communications line. The traffic amount is predicted based on the travel route which the user has registered. It then becomes possible to provide the fine-grained traffic information.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a road traffic-information service. More particularly, it relates to in-advance registration of a travel route and fee reduction using an electronic toll collection system. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] In the case of road situations offered in real time, e.g., wide-range traffic-information service via media such as television and radio and limited-area-oriented traffic-information service referred to as “VICS (: Vehicle Information and Communication System), as an area whose traffic information a user wishes to know is at a longer distance, and also as the traffic information acquired dates back to the past more, the traffic information proves to be more useless. Also, even if the user has acquired the most up-to-date information again in the area whose traffic information the user wishes to know, this information allows the user only to know the road situation wh...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G09B29/00G01C21/00G01C21/34G07B15/00G08G1/01G08G1/09G08G1/0969G09B29/10H04L12/66H04M11/00H04Q7/20
CPCG07B15/063G08G1/0104G08G1/096775G08G1/096741G08G1/096716
Inventor YASUKAWA, DAISUKE
Owner HITACHI LTD
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